14682142772 | aberration | someone that differs from what was their right, normal, or usual course | ![]() | 0 |
14682168749 | abeyance | temporary suppression or suspension | ![]() | 1 |
14682180421 | acerbic | bitter, sharp in taste or temper | ![]() | 2 |
14682187967 | acuity | sharpness, keeness, (sharpness of vision) | ![]() | 3 |
14682194117 | admonish | to warn | ![]() | 4 |
14682199827 | adroit | skillful; clever | ![]() | 5 |
14682222806 | aesthete | a person who cultivates a superior appreciation of beauty, especially in the arts; often used to imply that the person's appreciation is excessive, affected, or impractical | ![]() | 6 |
14682236128 | altruistic | unselfishly generous; concerned for others | ![]() | 7 |
14682245202 | ameliorate | to improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming | ![]() | 8 |
14682251063 | amorphous | shapeless, formless, vague and having an indefinite form in character. | ![]() | 9 |
14694101037 | antediluvian | extremely old; antiquated | ![]() | 10 |
14694102240 | apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity | ![]() | 11 |
14694103043 | arable | suitable for growing crops | ![]() | 12 |
14694104065 | ascetic | practicing self-denial | ![]() | 13 |
14694105310 | assuage | to make something unpleasant less severe | ![]() | 14 |
14694107674 | atrophy | to waste away | ![]() | 15 |
14694108492 | avarice | greed | ![]() | 16 |
14694108493 | aviary | A house, enclosure, or large cage for birds | ![]() | 17 |
14694111656 | avow | to claim; to declare boldly; to admit | ![]() | 18 |
14694115235 | bilk | cheat; defraud | ![]() | 19 |
14694189041 | broach | to bring up a subject for discussion | ![]() | 20 |
14694192624 | buttress | (v.) to support, prop up, strengthen; (n.) a supporting structure | ![]() | 21 |
14694194674 | celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | ![]() | 22 |
14694198958 | charlatan | a person who claims to have more knowledge than they do, fraud | ![]() | 23 |
14694200500 | cherubic | angelic; innocent-looking; N. cherub; CF. seraph: winged angel of the highest order | ![]() | 24 |
14694202085 | churlish | (adj.) lacking politeness or good manners; lacking sensitivity; difficult to work with or deal with; rude | ![]() | 25 |
14694204569 | circuitous | indirect, roundabout | ![]() | 26 |
14694206742 | clandestine | (adj.) secret, concealed; underhanded (Clandestine meeting) | ![]() | 27 |
14694213886 | commensurate | proportional | ![]() | 28 |
14694215415 | concomitant | accompanying in a subordinate fashion | ![]() | 29 |
15753448396 | confluence | a meeting or gathering together syn: convergence; concourse ant: divergence | ![]() | 30 |
15753456653 | conjugal | pertaining to marriage | ![]() | 31 |
15753459787 | contentious | quarrelsome, inclined to argue | ![]() | 32 |
15753462935 | conundrum | a difficult problem, puzzling, even a riddle sometimes | ![]() | 33 |
15753462953 | copious | abundant; plentiful | ![]() | 34 |
15753466289 | corpulence | state of being very fat | ![]() | 35 |
15753830257 | Corterie | clique | ![]() | 36 |
15753837707 | credulous | gullible | ![]() | 37 |
15753842064 | cryptic | mysterious | ![]() | 38 |
15753849414 | curmudgeon | cranky person | ![]() | 39 |
15753852249 | dearth | a lack, scarcity | ![]() | 40 |
15753856123 | demagogue | a leader who appeals to citizens' emotions to obtain power | ![]() | 41 |
15753866561 | desecrate | to violate the sacredness of a thing or place | ![]() | 42 |
15753871616 | diatribe | a bitter verbal attack | ![]() | 43 |
15753876101 | diffidence | shyness, lacking confidence. | ![]() | 44 |
15753879569 | dilatory | tending to delay or procrastinate | ![]() | 45 |
15753884336 | disaffected | rebellious, resentful of authority | ![]() | 46 |
15753890368 | discursive | rambling | ![]() | 47 |
15753894565 | dissemble | to disguise, to pretend | ![]() | 48 |
15753897230 | disparage | belittle | ![]() | 49 |
15753902915 | dispassionate | unbiased person, calm (Judge), unemotional decision made no bias. | ![]() | 50 |
15753907834 | dissonant | not in harmony; disagreeing, at odds | ![]() | 51 |
15753911951 | dissuade | to persuade someone not to do something | ![]() | 52 |
15753915898 | divination | foretelling the future by means of magic | ![]() | 53 |
15753920839 | dotard | foolish old man | ![]() | 54 |
15753930967 | duplicity | double-dealing; hypocrisy; being dishonest and deceitful; ADJ. duplicitous | ![]() | 55 |
15753944801 | egregious | outstandingly bad | ![]() | 56 |
15753949075 | elegiac | having a mournful quality | ![]() | 57 |
15753954298 | elucidate | To make clear by explaining | ![]() | 58 |
15753957836 | emanate | to come forth; to send forth syn: rise; emerge | ![]() | 59 |
16497614094 | emulate | to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model; | ![]() | 60 |
16497623897 | enigmatic | (adj.) puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, not easily understood | ![]() | 61 |
16497628533 | ennui | boredom; a weariness resulting from a lack of interest | ![]() | 62 |
16497629496 | ephemeral | short-lived | ![]() | 63 |
16497637981 | epicure | person with refined taste in food and wine | ![]() | 64 |
16497645183 | equivocate | Use unclear language to deceive or avoid committing to a position and you mislead them. | ![]() | 65 |
16497649788 | erudition | deep, extensive learning | ![]() | 66 |
16497658545 | esoteric | (adj.) intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret | ![]() | 67 |
16497661182 | espouse | (v.) to take up and support; to become attached to, adopt; to marry | ![]() | 68 |
16497662452 | ethereal | (adj.) light, airy, delicate; highly refined; suggesting what is heavenly (rather than earthbound) | ![]() | 69 |
16497663314 | extol | to praise highly | ![]() | 70 |
16497664627 | fatuous | (adj.) stupid or foolish trying to be foolish | ![]() | 71 |
16497666545 | fecund | fertile; productive | ![]() | 72 |
16497667829 | felicity | happiness; bliss | ![]() | 73 |
16497668825 | fetid | smelling extremely unpleasant | ![]() | 74 |
16497670086 | flippant | (adj.) lacking in seriousness; disrespectful, saucy | ![]() | 75 |
16497671354 | florid | (adj.) highly colored, reddish; excessively ornate, showy | ![]() | 76 |
16497674444 | foible | a minor weakness in character | ![]() | 77 |
16497676933 | furtive | secretive; sneaky | ![]() | 78 |
16497680113 | garnish | to decorate | ![]() | 79 |
16497682755 | garner | (v.) to acquire as the result of effort; to gather and store away, as for future use | ![]() | 80 |
16497683593 | guile | deceit; trickery | ![]() | 81 |
16497684912 | hedonism | self indulgence; pleasure-seeking | ![]() | 82 |
16497686347 | heretic | someone who goes against accepted religious beliefs | ![]() | 83 |
16497689267 | hiatus | a gap, opening, break | ![]() | 84 |
16497690078 | histrionic | (adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic | ![]() | 85 |
16497691408 | hoary | gray or white with age | ![]() | 86 |
16497692872 | iconoclasm | A belief that the practice of worshiping and honoring objects such as icons was sinful. Detroyer of images set up for religious vegenation. | ![]() | 87 |
16497698068 | immutable | unchangeable | ![]() | 88 |
16497699241 | impervious | not affected or hurt by; admitting of no passage or entrance | ![]() | 89 |
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